“No Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Lithuania”: National Health Care Fails to Identify PTSD

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 99-102

  Kazlauskas, Evaldas ^a   Zelviene, Paulina ^a   Eimontas, Jonas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LITHUANIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE;

EID: 85011945250     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.22152     Document Type: Article

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